In the beginning of the month was the big celebration of turning 23, once again a celebration abroad. I think this is becoming a new habit of mine. But for a variety of reasons (mainly visa purposes) I had to leave the country at the end of May, so we decided to go to Paris to celebrate my 23rd birthday.
Stephanie and I found cheap airfare over there, which also included two tickets for Paris Disneyland. So here we are, both going to Paris again for another time in less than 6 months and decided the only touristy thing we were going to do was use our free Disneyland tickets.
So of course it was a Bank Holiday weekend when we were there, which meant that I have never been more sick of small children and rude parents in my life. SO basically very similar to Disneyland back home I guess you could say. The park was clearly laid out to match that of Disneyland USA almost exactly. There were a few rides here and there that were missing, or made into a maze or fountain display but all the main essentials where there which made it nice since it was Stephanie's first trip to a Disneyland Park.
But it was a pretty funny experience to be standing in line for the rides and any animated character was speaking in French..made me laugh.
It's a Jones family joke..
The next day since Stephanie and I had both been to Paris before and have done all the 'touristy' things, we decided we wanted to just relax in the sun and enjoy Paris. So we left our hostel and went to the local supermarket and bought a bunch of meats, bread, cheeses of all sorts, dips and crackers. So we spent just about the full day laying out on the grass beside the Eiffel Tower reading, people watching and having a picnic with a big bottle of Sangria.
Later that evening we had planned on stopping back by the Tower on the way out, so Stephanie could see it at night for the first time. But while we were having a few drinks at the bar in our hostel, we met up with some of the fellow travelers we had been talking to the day before. There was a group of them who had all met in our accommodation with a mix from Canada, Ireland, the States, Buenos Aires, Argentina, etc. We all decided as a group to go to the bottle shop, pick up some drinks and then go out to the grass and hang out. We were among the 200 people thinking it would be a good idea so it was a long night of meeting people from all over the place.
I'm doing a cartwheel...you can sort of see me in two places at once..
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